Oh, This Again

You know, Dick Cheney isn't the first vice president to shoot a man while in office. It's true: I read it on Wikipedia!:

[Harry] Whittington is the second person to have ever been shot by a sitting U.S. Vice President. The only other was Alexander Hamilton, who was shot and killed in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804. Burr was subsequently indicted for murder.

Related: Some clever computer user has made a helpful new Wikipedia category: People shot by standing Vice Presidents!